The newest issue of Catholic Archives is now available. Contents of Catholic Archives 38: 2018 Justine Rainbow, The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse: learn how to stop worrying and to love your information Susan Healy, Data protection and religious archives Jim Ranahan, Perspectives on archives for pastoral work Maurice Whitehead, The pastoral functions of archives: … Continue reading Catholic Archives 38
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Archives Directory
We have been adding to the Archives Directory and the following services have provided details recently: Douai Abbey Library & Archive Leeds Diocesan Archives Northampton Diocesan Archives In addition, we have been expanding on the information contained in the archives directory to include details about collecting policies, see for example Jesuits in Britain Archives and … Continue reading Archives Directory
CFP urbanisation of Catholic communities
CFP volume of essays examining the urbanisation of Catholic communities in England in the generation after the Relief Acts of 1778 and 1791. (18 George III c. 60 and 31 George III. c. 32.) The great majority of this post-Relief generation of lay Catholics lived by profit made in trade and manufacture, or in the provision … Continue reading CFP urbanisation of Catholic communities
Benedictine 1702 library catalogue launched
On 1 February 2018, in the Douai Abbey library, Professor Eamon Duffy launched a limited edition of the 1702 library catalogue of the English Benedictine monks of St Edmund in Paris. This was compiled by Dom Benet Weldon (1647-1712), annalist of the English Benedictine Congregation, and contains over 5000 entries. It can be viewed online … Continue reading Benedictine 1702 library catalogue launched
New book and invitation to book launch
A new book about François Longuet, the French émigré priest who founded the Catholic parishes in Reading has been published. It is François Longuet and the Reading Mission by Lindsay Mullaney. A book launch is being held at St James' Church, The Forbury, Reading, on Sunday 12 February 2017 at 3pm to which you are warmly … Continue reading New book and invitation to book launch
Book review required
If you are interested in providing a book review for the 2018 Journal of 'Tales out of school: recollections of ex-convent school girls' (edited by Anthony Spencer, Pat Pinsent and Emma Shackle and published by the Pastoral Research Centre Trust) please contact the Journal editor, Jonathan Bush: jonathan.bush@durham.ac.uk This review would be required by January 2018.
Catholic Archives 36
The newest issue of Catholic Archives is now available. Contents of Catholic Archives 36: 2016 Clare Walsh: Stop, Look and Listen! Common sense advice for archivists Peter Phillips: The Pastoral Function of Church Archives: A Personal Reflection Rebecca Somerset: Producing a Development Plan for the Archives Alastair Fraser:'There is some old printed stuff in there as well': Some … Continue reading Catholic Archives 36
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